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Italian
Etymology
Verb-object compound, composed of scarica (“unload, dump”) + barile (“barrel”), literally “barrel-dumping”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌska.ri.ka.baˈri.le/[1]
- Rhymes: -ile
- Hyphenation: sca‧ri‧ca‧ba‧rì‧le
Noun
scaricabarile m (invariable)
- a children's game in which two people stand back-to-back and lift each other
- (figuratively) a blame game or buck-passing; a situation in which every person involved blames someone else of being responsible
Derived terms
References
- ^ scaricabarile in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Further reading
- scaricabarile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana